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Method, system, and program for managing path groups to an input/output (I/O) device

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-06-22
INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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The patent describes a method, system, and program for managing paths to an input / output device. It allows a processing system to indicate which path it used to communicate with the device and which path the system can add to a path group for the device. This helps ensure that multiple devices can communicate with the processing system without interfering with each other.

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However, the host TPF software may issue the disband path groups command for the intended connection path and device prior to connection.
In addition, if the processing system requesting the lock does not get the attention, then the further waiters of the lock will not get processed because the current new holder did not respond to the attention message from the ESS locking facility.

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[0035]The described embodiments for copying data between controllers may be implemented as a method, apparatus or article of manufacture using standard programming and / or engineering techniques to produce software, firmware, hardware, or any combination thereof. The term “article of manufacture” as used herein refers to code or logic implemented in hardware logic (e.g., an integrated circuit chip, Programmable Gate Array (PGA), Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), etc.) or a computer readable medium, such as magnetic storage medium (e.g., hard disk drives, floppy disks, tape, etc.), optical storage (CD-ROMs, optical disks, etc.), volatile and non-volatile memory devices (e.g., EEPROMs, ROMs, PROMs, RAMs, DRAMs, SRAMs, firmware, programmable logic, etc.). Code in the computer readable medium is accessed and executed by a processor. The code in which preferred embodiments are implemented may further be accessible through a transmission media or ...

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Provided are a method, system, and program for managing path groups to an Input / Output (I / O) device. Indication is made of a connection path on which a processing system initially communicated an establish request to establish a connection with an I / O device, wherein attention that the processing system may own a lock for the I / O device is transmitted down the indicated connection path. A request is received from the processing system to add a path to a path group with respect to the I / O device, wherein the added path is capable of comprising the connection path the processing system used to establish the connection with the I / O device. The received path is added to the path group.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to a method, system, and program for managing path groups to an I / O device.[0003]2. Description of the Related Art[0004]In certain computing environments, multiple host systems may communicate with multiple control units providing access to storage devices, such as interconnected hard disk drives, through one or more logical paths. The interconnected drives may be configured as a Direct Access Storage Device (DASD), Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID), Just a Bunch of Disks (JBOD), etc. For instance, the hosts may implement International Business Machines Corporation's (IBM®) Transaction Facility Processing (TPF) operating system in different processing systems in the hosts that issue Multi-Path Lock Facility (MPLF) locking requests to a control unit, such as an IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS)®, for data in a storage device managed by the ESS receiving the request. (IBM and ESS ...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/00G06F12/00G06F13/00H04J3/16H04L12/28
CPCG06F3/0622G06F3/0635G06F13/385G06F3/0683G06F3/0637
Inventor PETERSON, BETH ANNCORONADO, JUAN ALONSOCLARK, BRIAN DOW
Owner INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP